Who Should Ghostwrite Christine O’Donnell’s Book?

Yesterday, word broke that unsuccessful senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnellhad landed a book deal, a boon to both contemporary literature and bars in the vicinity of M.F.A. classrooms. “You heard the spin about the 2010 elections. It's time to set the record straight & move forward - signed a book deal w St. Martins Press!” O’Donnell tweeted. As with many political memoirs, the next step after attaining a book deal is choosing a ghostwriter.We’ve dissected the careers of three viable options for co-collaborator.

Lynn Vincent: Vincent is the voice of Going Rogue, Sarah Palin’s best-selling literary debut. She’s also ghost-written several other works, including The Blood of Lambs: A Former Terrorist's Memoir of Death and Redemption, heralded by an Amazon review as “a real eye opener as it explains why these radicals want to kill us with all of their hearts.” Vincent is also an editor at WORLD Magazine, a Christian journal whose manifesto reveals a commitment “to see the world as best we can the way the Bible depicts it.” Vincent’s own views include a distaste for homosexuality (“The homosexual ethos depends on an abandonment of truth,” she wrote) and a reverence for the House Un-American Activities Committee (“[Richard Nixon’s] dogged pursuit of the truth ultimately revealed the extent to which Joseph Stalin was pulling Roosevelt's strings like those of a hapless puppet.”)

Christopher Michel: The young Yale alum is the co-author of Decision Points, George W. Bush’s well-marketed new memoir. Michel began working for Bush in 2003, when he landed at internship in the White House thanks to a recommendation from Barbara Bush, a schoolmate. He quickly rose through the ranks to director of speechwriting, and, [b]efore long, the president was inviting Michel out to the balcony of the White House to smoke cigars,” the Daily Beast reported.

Mark Dagostino: As the Associated Press discovered yesterday, Dagostino is an alum of the memoirs of both Tim Pawlenty and Hulk Hogan. “He wrote some stuff, we’d ping-pong it back and forth. I wrote a bunch of it,” Pawlenty, in that writerly way of his, said in an interview. Courage to Stand: An American Story is not out until next month, but Hogan’s book, My Life Outside the Ring, is available for $1.98 on Amazon.